The Tallest Trees We Have Measured

Height is what people mean when they say a tree is big, and it is the measurement we hold least of, because it takes a surveyor rather than a tape. Every figure on this page comes from a register's own survey or from a plaque at the foot of the tree, never from our own prose: a sentence in a story about height is as often about the species in general, or the tree next to it, or how tall it stood before a storm took the top off. So this ranks the trees that have actually been measured at twenty-five metres or more, tallest first, and it grows as the measurements do. The building comparisons are rough. Start with a mountain ash in a Portuguese forest that is taller than most church towers around it.

Forty metres and over (79)

Hobart →

Guerneville →

Coos Bay →

Sequoia National Park →

Kings Canyon National Park →

Kings Canyon National Park →

Sequoia National Park →

Kings Canyon National Park →

Sequoia National Park →

Portland →

Port Renfrew →

Coimbra →

Sequoia National Park →

Sequoia National Park →

Freiburg →

Port Renfrew →

Bucaco →

Yosemite National Park →

Olympic National Park →

Tenerife →

Takachiho →

Coimbra →

Olympic National Park →

Olympic National Park →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Zwieslerwaldhaus →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Portland →

Sintra →

Alicante →

Bilu →

Degsne →

Rio de Janeiro →

Padua →

Parma →

Segovia →

Hiroshima →

Malaga →

Waipoua Forest →

Tenerife →

Portland →

Brisbane →

Bucaco →

Catania →

Bucaco →

Bucaco →

Seville →

Seattle →

Réno-Valdieu →

Réno-Valdieu →

Milan →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Perušić →

Portland →

Eichigt →

Nagi →

Seville →

Utrecht →

Valencia →

Coromandel Forest Park →

Brisbane →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Genoa →

New York →

Aarhus →

Rouen →

Porto →

Caserta →

Caserta →

Geneva →

Arita →

Strasbourg →

New York →

Bucaco →

Rouen →

Turin →

Catania →

Rio de Janeiro →

Brisbane →

Thirty-three to forty metres (145)

Wilmington, Delaware →

Genoa →

Bologna →

Madeira →

Rouen →

Guimaraes →

Maastricht →

Hobart →

Maastricht →

Genoa →

Girona →

Portland →

Seattle →

Milan →

Parry Kauri Park →

Caserta →

Palermo →

Freiburg →

Bordeaux →

Cyprus →

Kagoshima →

Geneva →

Bucaco →

Maastricht →

Arnhem →

Amsterdam →

Parma →

Segovia →

Bologna →

Spokane →

Geneva →

Enschede →

Hiroshima →

Geneva →

Portland →

Chicago →

Maastricht →

Chicago →

Renavas →

Segovia →

Takachiho →

Valencia →

Genoa →

Como →

Madeira →

Hobart →

Atami →

Palermo →

Bologna →

Amsterdam →

Turin →

Milan →

Bad Homburg →

Bucaco →

Porto →

Apeldoorn →

Seville →

Pamplona →

Porto →

Verona →

Portland →

Portland →

Deventer →

Milan →

Menorca →

Mito →

Caserta →

Antwerp →

Bucaco →

Florence →

Utrecht →

Guimaraes →

Trieste →

Eindhoven →

Miyazaki →

Amsterdam →

Bruges →

Geneva →

Dordrecht →

Lucca →

Naples →

Dresden →

Padua →

Munich →

Arnhem →

Arnhem →

Trieste →

Caserta →

Sintra →

Sequoia National Park →

Portland →

Takachiho →

Singapore →

Sunderland, Massachusetts →

Chicago →

Milan →

Milan →

Milan →

Kanagi →

La Adrada →

Fukuoka →

Rome →

Geneva →

Maastricht →

Brussels →

Lausanne →

Trieste →

Belgrade →

Geneva →

Stuttgart →

Los Angeles →

Zurich →

Arnhem →

Turin →

Strasbourg →

Chadds Ford →

Portland →

New York →

Valencia →

Zwolle →

Palo Alto →

Spokane →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Florence →

Valencia →

Portland →

Giessen →

Milan →

Amerongen →

Oxford →

Madrid →

Brussels →

Gojaus Miskas →

Kanazawa →

Istanbul →

Brisbane →

Leipzig →

Arnhem →

Brussels →

Arnhem →

Den Bosch →

Paris →

Trieste →

Como →

Madrid →

Twenty-eight to thirty-three metres (236)

Valencia →

Seattle →

Valencia →

Segovia →

Tokyo →

Bologna →

Valencia →

Portland →

Valencia →

Milan →

Takahama →

Bologna →

Bergamo →

Plauginiai Forest →

Madrid →

Genoa →

Bergamo →

Strasbourg →

Brussels →

Barcelona →

Bordeaux →

Boise →

Dordrecht →

Nijmegen →

Rome →

Sapporo →

Brisbane →

Barcelona →

Segovia →

Seville →

Maastricht →

Enschede →

Warsaw →

Barcelona →

Plunge →

Rambynas →

Arnhem →

Portland →

Curinga →

Copenhagen →

Florence →

Austin →

Portland →

Valencia →

Spokane →

Portland →

Portland →

Plunge →

Degsne →

Les Clayes-sous-Bois →

Arnhem →

Bucaco →

Trieste →

Paris →

Leeuwarden →

Rouen →

Deventer →

Strasbourg →

Geneva →

Sintra →

Dublin →

Trieste →

Porto →

Geneva →

Fort Lauderdale →

Portland →

Chapel Hill, North Carolina →

Lucca →

Perugia →

Trento →

Girona →

Salt Lake City →

Valencia →

Simsbury →

Valencia →

Valencia →

Wiśniowa →

Hel →

Ueki →

Tillamook →

Takeo →

Alicante →

Modena →

Zwolle →

Berlin →

Cagliari →

Naples →

Bucaco →

Calvos →

Florence →

Trento →

Lucca →

Cielętniki →

Poznan →

Deventer →

Alkmaar →

Hobart →

Palermo →

Dresden →

Nara →

Kagoshima →

Nara →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Bergamo →

Leeuwarden →

Gdansk →

Tilburg →

Rouen →

Amsterdam →

Rotterdam →

Palermo →

Leeuwarden →

Catania →

Arnhem →

Eindhoven →

Assisi →

Los Angeles →

Utrecht →

Palermo →

Utrecht →

Paris →

Lucca →

Sremski Karlovci →

Amersfoort →

Lucca →

Munich →

Apeldoorn →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Trieste →

Rome →

Miyazaki →

Brussels →

Tilburg →

Trieste →

Helmond →

Freiburg →

Barcelona →

Caserta →

Rouen →

Geneva →

Tilburg →

Unnan →

Fukuoka →

Waipoua Forest →

Portland →

Madeira →

Valencia →

Bologna →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Portland →

Chicago →

Bologna →

Singapore →

New York →

Milan →

Barcelona →

Geneva →

Brisbane →

Cork →

Arnhem →

Flinders Ranges →

Sardinia →

Eindhoven →

Brisbane →

Oahu →

Strasbourg →

Girona →

Dresden →

Berlin →

Portland →

Tilburg →

Hamburg →

Groningen →

Ede →

Helmond →

Lausanne →

Chicago →

Florence →

Zwolle →

Lisbon →

Guimaraes →

Barcelona →

Leeuwarden →

Copenhagen →

New York →

Seattle →

Fukuoka →

Dresden →

Mexico City →

Mexico City →

Deblin →

Zwolle →

Milan →

Milan →

Plunge →

Berlin →

Nuremberg →

Trento →

Deventer →

Genoa →

Coimbra →

Baarn →

Rome →

Rome →

Amersfoort →

Portland →

Caserta →

Florence →

Bad Homburg →

Melbourne →

Turin →

Geneva →

Florence →

Verona →

Seoul →

Budapest →

Dordrecht →

Lucca →

Warsaw →

Turin →

Rouen →

Paris →

Enschede →

Hoorn →

Lisbon →

Trento →

Den Bosch →

Warsaw →

Melbourne →

Nara →

Venlo →

Enschede →

Nara →

Trieste →

Leeuwarden →

Vienna →

Twenty-five to twenty-eight metres (291)

Amersfoort →

Fort Lauderdale →

New York →

Valencia →

Copenhagen →

Boise →

Braga →

Osaka →

Otari-Wilton's Bush →

Salamanca →

Milan →

Mexico City →

Milan →

Sulechów →

Berlin →

Columbia, Missouri →

Lausanne →

Barcelona →

Paris →

Turin →

Geneva →

Bucaco →

Bucaco →

Utrecht →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Trieste →

Ede →

Turin →

Bordeaux →

Groningen →

Oahu →

Bergamo →

Sapporo →

Nara →

Haarlem →

Utrecht →

Groningen →

Eindhoven →

Barcelona →

Deventer →

Utrecht →

Melbourne →

Hoorn →

Paris →

Heerlen →

Emmen →

Seville →

Belgrade →

Žilina →

Copenhagen →

Sapporo →

Haarlem →

Trieste →

Venlo →

Helmond →

Madrid →

Utrecht →

Brussels →

Vienna →

Spokane →

Chicago →

Lisbon →

New York →

Mexico City →

Alicante →

Setubal →

Athens →

Mexico City →

Hawaii →

Valencia →

Copenhagen →

Trento →

Singapore →

Valencia →

Grybiskes →

Gdansk →

Plunge →

Yabu →

Pagramantis Regional Park →

Gdansk →

Nijmegen →

Zwolle →

Helmond →

Dordrecht →

Nara →

Seville →

Paris →

Paris →

Madrid →

Caserta →

Zwolle →

The Hague →

Warsaw →

Roosendaal →

Strasbourg →

Dordrecht →

Trento →

Valencia →

Valencia →

Berlin →

Rouen →

Madrid →

Amsterdam →

Seoul →

Nijmegen →

Barcelona →

Helmond →

Apeldoorn →

Pamplona →

Helmond →

Deventer →

Tilburg →

Amsterdam →

Utrecht →

Barcelona →

Tilburg →

Ronda →

Turin →

Den Bosch →

Dordrecht →

Berlin →

Maastricht →

Den Bosch →

Rotterdam →

Dordrecht →

Dresden →

Utrecht →

Enschede →

Tilburg →

Washington DC →

Guimaraes →

Istanbul →

Lisbon →

Lucca →

Baarn →

The Hague →

Helmond →

Zarzecze →

Fort Worth →

Oahu →

Portland →

Setubal →

Copenhagen →

Valencia →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Salt Lake City →

Portland →

Kagoshima →

Segovia →

Helsinki →

Braga →

Alicante →

Yakushima →

Ede →

Arnhem →

Gottingen →

Milan →

Ichinohe →

Kawago →

Toba →

Frankenthal →

Oguni →

Madrid →

Dresden →

Baarn →

Caserta →

Istanbul →

Bergamo →

Seoul →

Leeuwarden →

Leeuwarden →

Porto →

Brisbane →

Miyazaki →

Genoa →

Genoa →

Como →

Vales →

Amersfoort →

Assen →

Emmen →

Zwolle →

Utrecht →

Dresden →

Arnhem →

Leiden →

Borculo →

Frankfurt →

Naples →

Naples →

Munich →

Palermo →

Trieste →

Malaga →

Maastricht →

Lausanne →

Ferrara →

Hiroshima →

Como →

Rome →

Kyoto →

Brussels →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Berlin →

Nara →

Paris →

Caserta →

Madrid →

Friedewald →

Rome →

Barcelona →

Como →

Barcelona →

Caserta →

Oahu →

Trieste →

Naples →

Wilmington, Delaware →

Assen →

Helmond →

Dordrecht →

Higashi-Hiroshima →

Roosendaal →

Barcelona →

Boston →

Padua →

Melbourne →

Arnhem →

Bad Homburg →

Emmen →

Helmond →

Ede →

Dresden →

Dubinné →

Dresden →

Heerlen →

Den Bosch →

Dresden →

Modena →

Tombeboeuf →

Fujikawaguchiko →

Utrecht →

Leiden →

Nagoya →

Copenhagen →

Utrecht →

Perugia →

Frankfurt →

Parma →

Dresden →

Leiden →

Seville →

Paris →

Paris →

Trieste →

Amersfoort →

Leeuwarden →

Trieste →

Delft →

Dresden →

Berlin →

Budapest →

Naples →

Venlo →

Trieste →

Caserta →

Leeuwarden →

Hoorn →

Den Bosch →

Helmond →

Helmond →

Hoorn →

Dordrecht →

York →

Caserta →

Melbourne →

Seville →

Cordoba →

Seville →

Salzburg →

Alkmaar →

Gdansk →

Salzburg →

Berlin →

Utrecht →

Dresden →

Leeuwarden →

Arnhem →

Florence →

Kimotsuki →

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